Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Here's an idea that I have been advocating for the past couple of years. Basically, because I usually don't have as much time as I would like to make or bottle wine. Just think how easy it would be to just dump 5 gallons into a keg, slightly pressurize it, and voila. Wine on tap.

Sparkling wine usually comes packaged in either standard-sized wine bottles (750 mL), half-bottle-sized splits or Magnums, which hold the equivalent of two standard wine bottles. However, less common, larger bottle sizes include Jeroboams (which hold 4 standard bottles of wine), Methuselahs (8 bottles), Balthazars (16 bottles) Nebuchadnezzars (20 bottles), Melchiors (24 bottles) and Sovereigns (34 bottles). There is also a size between Melchior (18 L) and Sovereign (25.5 L) that you may never have heard of  the Cornelius (18.9 L).